Doctors say things to me

For the past 15 years, doctors have been saying things to me.
A partial and imperfect list
compiled from memory, writing and emails.

He said:  We think something is wrong.
He said:  She is almost perfect.  
He said:  This will be an easy surgery.  I will cut it off and that will be the end of it.
He said:  That was a complicated surgery.  And I do this all the time. 
He said:  We have seen something like this before.  We don’t know what to make of it.
They said:  Here are the current challenges.
He said:  This is a very tricky bug.
She said:  The head is a great spot for an IV in a baby this young.
 
They say:  I don’t know.  We don’t know.  I don’t know.
 
He said:  This is very important real estate.  
He said:  We will have to see if this issue forces our hand into surgery.
He said: Intramedullary & Mediastinal. 
He said:  Neural foramina. 
She said:  This is a non-validated result that we have to confirm independently.
She said:  Yes. Finally a match and a label.  
He said: The risks and benefits are....
He said: The challenges with research are limited understanding of the disease, little interest by the main medical body and research centers & little funding of these syndromes.
He said: Horses are better than zebras.
He said:  I would expect symptoms to be similar, if this were to happen again.  

He said: I would emphasize that much of this moves slowly - at the pace of months or years, not weeks or days.
He said: I just heard today that the clinical trial is open here.
​He said:  This won't hurt her a bit.  
He said: The MRI looks pretty unchanged to me.
He said: She's a complicated girl.
He said: The other risks and benefits are......
He said: I hope it helps - please let me know.
He said: I am glad she is stable and I hope she improves.
He said: I am sorry that this new finding is here – we will do our best to get a good plan in place.

They say: We don’t know. I don’t know. We don’t know.

He said: I will use the femoral artery.
He said: I will use part of the hip bone.
He said: You're not listening.
He said:  The window is closing.  
He said: I have the pictures of the surgery.
He said: I think we need to intubate.
He said: I want to make this right. Can I call you right now?

They say: We don’t have an answer to that question.

He said: I'm not sure what happened. It makes no sense.
He said: This was the right decision.
​He said: This will take time. Hopefully it will get better. It will be slow.
He said: In the lab, the mama mice eat the babies who have the disease. They know something is wrong.
They said: Tell us if the improvements stop.
He said: Hopefully this medication will help.
They said: I don't think there's anything else we can do.

He says:   I don’t know. 

He says: I am continuously humbled by the way that you remind me that you know way more about this than we do.
He says: I will never be smart enough, quick enough to answer the questions that you have asked and that you keep asking. I am sure of this.

And the doctors will keep saying the things. And life goes on, as it does.  And I will keep asking all the questions.